Vienna

Vienna was our least favorite city so far. The sights are expensive, spread out, and dull compared to other cities so far.

Here is one exceptional sculpture, though. There's just a lot going on here:

 The tremendous exception was the University of Vienna Botanical Garden.

Tree-touching Eleni

Some prickly Flora and fauna

Anybody got a spare frog?

The cool thing about this flower was the honeybee that was going into the flower and disappearing for a while, then coming out and disappearing into another part.

Most of the garden is free, but we paid for the Alpine Garden to make up for it a little. We spent a lot of time there waiting for our time slot to get into the Upper Belvedere. The related exception was the amazing techno WC in the garden. The seats went up and down by remote control and the door lock/unlock was automagic also.

Yes, we visited the Belvedere. 

This little guy was praying for John.

The art collection in the Upper Belvedere was extensive, and we got to see The Kiss,

but the crowding and lack of crowd control kind of killed the thrill.

The huge exception to the banality of Vienna was "Viki's Pub so oder so."

Viki welcomed us like we were best mates. The decor was enough to keep us busy inspecting while we had our beers, but the locals were so friendly we ended up talking with them instead. It took 3 hugs to get out.